Telegram-herald., 1887-11-14


~ tie teaehszs wao have u safsrce II sad sls-
structiye ~ the eaildren sa0 must sabnair 70
t5e process lo1 Ena children - AID 10
years of age VIA school lsssozs Only &ppro-
pirate for cAlidrea of IS IL childrea are
kept IN school ani studyiAg frpm 3 70 5
o'clock, no holns sttiiy ezcept laade--o0gst II
be required II taeEn- SIX hgan Of ssady IS
enough for any child The rest ef the day
ought q D. devoted % rsereztsaa and psirs
fun But you cannot begia too early the
moral culture Of 4 child OF CA teo complete a
scale. Yoa can look back upon your osFn life
and remember what mighty Impressions we're
made upon you al or 3 years oI age. Oh, that
child does not sit 80 silent during your con
yersation 70 be uniniusnced b. It. You say
be does not understand. Although much OF
your phraseol0sy Is beyond his grasp. ne IS
gathering up from your talls influences which
win AFFECT his Immortal destiny. tTOna the
question he asks you long aftsrward YOU find
Ire understood al about waat you were say
ing You think the. child does nol appreciate
that beautiful cloud, but It's most delicate
lines are rejected into the very depths OF the
Youthful nature, aud a score Of years from
low you will SEQ the shadow OF that cloud in
the tastes and rehnements developed. The
song with which you sing that child 10 sleep
will echo through all its life, and ring back
from the very arches of heaven think that
often the first seven years of child's life de
cides whether il shall be irascible, waspish,
rude, false, hypocritical, or gentle, truthful,
frank, obedient, honest and Christian. The
present generations Of men will pass of very
much as they are now. Although the
gospel is offered them, the general rule is
that drunkarls die drunkards, thieves die
thieves libertines die hbertines. Therefore,
TO the youth we turn. Before they sow wild
oats get them to SOW wheat and barley. You
I'll the bushel measure with good corn, and
there VIII be no room for huslls. Glorious
Alfred Goodman was converted at 10 years
OF age. At Carlisle, Pa, during the progress
OF a religious meeting in the Methodist
church, while many were kneeling at the foot
OF the altar, this boy lSnelt in corner of the
church all by himself, and said: Precious
Savior, thou art saving others; o wilt thou
not save mef' A Presbyterian elder knelt
beside him and led him into the light. En-
throned Alfred Cookmanl Tell me from the
skies, were you converted toe earlyl But
cannot hear his answer. 1t is overpowered
by the huzzas of the tens Of thousands who
were brought to God through his ministry.
isaac Watts, the great Christian poet, was
converted at 9 years Of age. Robert Hall,
the great Baptist evangelist, was converted
at Il years of age. Jonathan Edwards, the
greatest of American logicians, was convert
ed at years of age.
Oh, for one generation Of holy men and
| women Shall it be the neItl Fathers and
mothers. you under God are to decide wheth
er from your families shall go forth towards
inebriates, counterfeiters, blasphemers, and
| whether there shall be those bearing your
image and carrying your name fostering in
the low haunts of vice, and fioundering in
dissipation, and making the midnight Of
their lives horrid with long howl of ruin.
or whether from your family affairs shall
| come the Christians, the reformers, the
teachers, the ministers of Christ, the COM
| forters of the troubled, the healers of the
| sick. the enacters of good laws, the founders
of charitable institutions, and great many
! who shall in the humber spheres of toll and
| usefulness serve God and the best interests of
| the human race.
You cannot as parents shirk the response
bility. God has charged you with a mission,
| and all the thrones of heaven are waiting to
see whether you will do your duty. We
must not forget that it is not so much what
/ we teach our children as what we are in their
| presence We wish them to be better than
| we are, but the probability Is that they will
be OILY reproductions Of our own character.
| German literature has much TO say of the
''specter Of Brocken" Among those noun
| tains travellers, in certain conditions of the
atmosphere, see themselves copied on a gi-
gantic scale in the clouds. At first the travel
ers do not realize that it is themselves on a
larger scale. When they lift hand or move
/ the head this monster specter does the
same, and with such enlargement OF
proportions that the scene is most
exciting, and thousands have gone "a
. that place just 70 behold the specter
of Brocken- The probability is that some OF
our faults which we consider small and IN
significant, if we do not put an end TO them
will be copied on larger scale in the lives OF
( our children, and perhaps dilated and exag
gerated into spectral proportions. You need
not 90 of as far as the Broken to see that
/ process. The first thing in Importance in the
/ education Of our children is TO make our.
selves by tho grace Of God, fit examples &c
be copied The day VIII come when you
must confront that child, not in the church
pew on n calm Sabbath, but amid the con
sternation Of the rising dead, and the flying
heavens, and a burning world From your
side that son or daughter, bone of your bone
heart Of your heart, the fathers brow his
brow, the mothers eye his eye, shall go forth
70 an eternal destiny. What will be your
| JOY at last you hear their feet in
the same golden highway and hear
their voices in the same rapturous song, illus
trstions, while the eternal ages last, of what
faithful parent could, under God, accom-
plish. | was reading Of mother who, dying
had all her children abos1t her, and took each
one Of them by the hand and asked them tc
rneet Der in heaven. and with tsars and .ob'
such az those only know who have stood by
the desthbed Of a good old mother. They al
promised. But there was a young man Of 1s
who had been very Wild, and reckless. and
hard, and proud, and when she took his hand
she said: Now, my boy, want you tc
promise me before die that you viii become
Christian and meet me in heaven The
young man made no answer. for there Wa
50 much for him to give up II be made and
kept such promise. But the aged motheS
persisted in saying:
You won't deny ne that before 20, vii
yoni This parting must not be forever. Tel
ne now you viii serve God and meet me- il
The Land where there js no parting 0uak
ing With sr1otion be stood. making I'D n,
mind and hating and hesitatinz. but a. lss-
hrs stgbbornnsss yielded and be threw n,
arms around his mothers neck and sad
YES, mother vii. will And ss be fin
ished the Last word Of MA proniss her spirit
sscsEsi-d. thank God the young mar keps
RS promise YES he kept it Nay God Civ.
al mothers ard fathers toe glsd5eSs Of thsiI
ebildreus salvation
For al Who are trying "a DO their duty q,
parents / quote ne tremendous passage
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